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Ghost B.C. documentary takes you behind the sheet

What to make of Ghost B.C – The Olde One – Papaganda, the first episode of a documentary about Ghost that premiered earlier today on Noisey? On the one hand, it’s a pretty entertaining and beautifully shot documentary about the Swedish sextet. On the other, you’re not going to find out all that much about the band that you didn’t know before. Papa Emeritus II is shown without his makeup (which you can also see in the “Year Zero” video), but it’s obviously a mask that looks like a cross between John Waters and the old man in the Six Flags commercials. He’s then shown putting the Papa makeup on the mask and mentioning that there will be a Papa Emeritus III. Either way, it’s great live footage (courtesy of Lemmy co-director Greg Olliver), and listening to a Nameless Ghoul talk about the band in a non-satanic/non-campy manner should help bring more people over to the dark side. We’re kinda psyched for Part II.

If you thought Europe wasn’t more than “The Final Countdown,” you’ve mostly been right. However, their new album War of Kings, is streaming now on Yahoo Music, and it’s not awful. The album will be released on March 10th on Hell & Back Recordings. It can be preordered here.

Philadelphia doom band Crypt Sermon’s debut album, Out of the Garden has gotten a lot of well-deserved press. Now you can listen to the Dark Descent album before it’s in stores next Tuesday. It’s streaming here.

You can add two more states on to the Mastodon/Clutch tour that will be making its way around the country starting in April. They’ve added shows in Honolulu on April 4th and Detroit (Sterling Heights) on May 23rd.